William Stackpole (1746-1813)

He lived in what became known as the "Stackpole House" first built in 1729 and previously occupied by the Waldos, Tyngs and Apthorps. It was a large brick house with an ample court-yard and garden in front, midway between Milk and Water Streets. After his death it was home to his son-in-law Francis Welch before it was sold by their son, Charles Alfred Welch. After it ceased to be "a genteel private residence, it was (numbered 30 Milk Street) used as a fashionable restaurant where the gay and lively Bostonians found good cooking and where they used to assemble and unbend in festive cheer... it was quite as celebrated a resort for wits and bon vivants as Delmonico's in this city (New York), or Ambrose's in Edinburgh, or Wells's Coffee House in London during the life of the glorious John Dryden." He traded from 26 State Street and he acquired the leases to the Marlborough Arms (1784) and the Three Mariners (1795) that he renamed the "Bear Tavern". He married Ann Jackson in 1776 and had five children (listed).